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    related to Dick Button at Wikimedia Commons Dick Button at the Team USA Hall of Fame (archive July 20, 2023) Dick Button at Olympics.com Dick Button at Olympedia...
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  • skating gold medal while Dick Button became the first American to win a figure skating title for the United States. Button also became the first figure...
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  • triple or even quadruple jumps". At the 1948 Winter Olympics, American Dick Button was the first skater to complete a double Axel in competition. American...
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    Gerschwiler Dick Button Arthur Apfel 1948 Davos Dick Button Hans Gerschwiler Ede Király 1949 Paris Dick Button Ede Király Edi Rada 1950 London Dick Button Ede...
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  • after these Games. Notable performances were turned in by figure skaters Dick Button and Barbara Ann Scott and skier Henri Oreiller. Most athletic venues...
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  • the show. All six episodes of the show were broadcast. Johnny Weir, Dick Button, and Laurieann Gibson served as judges, while Tanith Belbin served as...
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    2004 to 2022. Hanyu is the first male single skater in 66 years since Dick Button to win back-to-back Olympic titles (2014, 2018), and also the youngest...
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  • weather or poor ice conditions at the outdoor rinks. At this competition, Dick Button won his second Olympic title, and also became the first skater to land...
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    camel spin. Dick Button might have been the first skater to successfully execute the flying camel; for many years, it was called the "Button camel". The...
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    lacked passion and power. Commentator and former Olympic gold medalist Dick Button agreed, stating that the newer program "was not good enough for him"...
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    Schäfer Ernst Baier Felix Kaspar 1948 St. Moritz Dick Button Hans Gerschwiler Edi Rada 1952 Oslo Dick Button Helmut Seibt James Grogan 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo...
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    youngest U.S. champion since Dick Button (1946), and in 2022 became the first man to win six consecutive U.S. titles since Button (1946–52). When Chen won...
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    Marvin Hagler/Thomas Hearns fight), figure skating (working alongside Dick Button and Peggy Fleming), road cycling (Michaels in particular, provided commentary...
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  • their competition programs. During the post-war period, American skater Dick Button, who "intentionally tried to bring a greater athleticism to men's skating"...
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  • idea was developed by 1948 and 1952 Olympic figure skating champion Dick Button. He shopped the idea to all three U.S. television networks, and ABC bought...
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  • circumstances Daniel E. Button (1917-2009), US representative from New York David Button (born 1989), English football goalkeeper Dick Button (born 1929), American...
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  • disenfranchised scores of Tony voters, including Gail Berman, Harve Brosten, Dick Button, Tony Lo Bianco, and Raymond Serra). To be eligible for Tony Award consideration...
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  • choreographer and figure skater Sandra Bezic, with Olympic champion Dick Button being the other regular judge. There was also one rotating guest judge...
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  • competing in events that were not their own. The idea was developed by Dick Button who shopped the idea to all three U.S. television networks. The show...
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  • utilized by ABC throughout the 1964 Winter Olympics. Beginning in 1962, Dick Button worked as a figure skating analyst for ABC Sports, which had acquired...
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  • Jarmila Novotna as Dame Brinker Carmen Mathews as Mevrouw Van Gleck Dick Button as Peter Van Gleck Ralph Roberts as Raff Ellie Sommers as Trinka Paul...
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    Grant Paul Newman (1925-2008), actor, director and race car driver Dick Button (born 1929) figure skater David Letterman (born 1947), talk show host...
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  • the summer, a practice unusual at the time. Among his students were Dick Button and Dorothy Hamill. Lussi was born in Stans, Switzerland. He himself...
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    committee for the sport, and WFSS' Skating Hall of Fame was formed; Dick Button attended the Hall of Fame induction ceremony and also commentated for...
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  • prominence in bobsleigh, with wins in the four- and two-man events. Dick Button of the United States performed the first triple jump in international...
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    researching skaters. Her broadcasting influences were Peggy Fleming, Dick Button, and Scott Hamilton; she listened to tapes of Hamilton's past broadcasts...
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    Lyons Button MBE (born 19 January 1980) is a British racing driver, currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Jota. Button competed...
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    tennis player who won the US Women's National Championship in 1893 Dick Button (born 1929), Olympic ice skater and commentator; ranked No. 11 on the...
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    37 golds. He is the first male single skater in 66 years since American Dick Button to win back-to-back Olympic titles (2014, 2018), and also the youngest...
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    Championships at age 17, he became the youngest national champion since Dick Button (1946). That same year, he won the Four Continents title and the first...
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